Soulmates forever.
Posted on 09/29/2017 8:32:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Hugh Hefner grieved in green silk.
One of his most promising Playboy Playmates, 20-year-old Dorothy Stratten, had been murdered, and Hefner was giving Village Voice writer Teresa Carpenter a glimpse at what he had otherwise kept private. After Stratten was shot in the face by her estranged husband on Aug. 14, 1980, Hefner issued an emotionless news release and went into a media-free seclusion.
In his trademark silk pajamas, Hefner looked somber. Carpenter described the sight as, “The incongruous spectacle of a sybarite in mourning.”
... “Death of a Playmate,” which would win a Pulitzer Prize, she also addressed Stratten’s loss on a deeper level for Hefner. He had struggled to make stars of his Playmates, and Stratten seemed destined to take him to the next level.
“There is something poignant about Hefner, master of an empire built on intimate nudes, but unable to coax those lustrous forms to life on film,” Carpenter wrote... “Dorothy exposed that yearning, that ego weakness, as surely as she revealed the most pathetic side of her husband’s nature — his itch for the big score....”
For all the high and unconstrained moments of Hefner’s life before his death Wednesday at the age of 91, the brutal killing of Stratten would remain a dark event that would follow him for years. He would later blame the cause of his stroke in 1985 on accusations flung at him by film producer Peter Bogdanovich, who had met Stratten at the Playboy Mansion and later fell in love with her.
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Bogdanovich wrote of Hefner in “The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten.” He wrote that, “she could not handle the slick professional machinery of the Playboy sex factory, nor the continual efforts of its founder to bring her into his personal fold, no matter what she wanted.”
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Hefner has his legacy. It’s not positive, in my opinion. He is something of the “Godfather” of the sexual revolution.
Was the sexual revolution really a good movement for society? All of us have our opinions. Mine is that it was not good, overall.
I had heard, just hearsay, that Hefner was more upset about the public image of Playboy being hurt by the Dorothy Stratton murder, rather than having any real remorse over her death. Because, in his world, all the girls are interchangeable. There’s always a new playmate the next month. Etc.
He got a lot of publicity from the reality show “The Girls Next Door”, which featured three of his playmates/live in girlfriends at that time. But, what people may not realize, is that he had been living that way for decades, even though that show started in 2005. He had a revolving door of girls moving in and out over the decades.
I wasn’t aware of a non-dark side to Playboy.
In the book about the beautiful Dorothy Stratten's murder, it chronicles her journey to becoming a top Playboy model.
She tells about her first visit to the Playboy Mansion as a young inexperienced girl.
She was lured to the infamous grotto pool under false pretenses.
There Hefner came up to her and made advances. She protested.
Then without her consent, he forced her into sex.
As he planned her murder, her deranged husband strapped Dorothy into Playboy's infamous **** machine......
This savage device was constructed for one purpose.....the man's ultimate enjoyment.
A cute dark headed girl called Barbie Doll was his long time girlfriend ...
I thought it was Barbi Benton.
I think Hef’s “girlfriends” were mostly beards.
Yes that was probably her name but I think the doll part was added ...just a nick...
Hefner said the thing he was proudest of in life was that he helped make sex outside of marriage acceptable. American society is much the worse on account of Hef’s “achievement”. It was disgraceful when writers such as William F. Buckley published in Playboy, thereby giving a patina of respectability to what was. however take it may have been in comparison to publications that came after it, still pornography.
Did Heffner have a NOT dark side?
An abortions loving piece of garbage.
Soulmates forever.
If I recall correctly her murderer was alleged to have used that machine to have sex with her bloody headless corpse. (I apologize for the grotesque reference but it is important to note what type of sick people pornography attracts.)
A 91 year old creep died. Good.
Then only lesson to be learned from Hefner and “Playboy” is that people will do anything for money. Anything.
20 years old. Naive. A lot to take advantage of.
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